WHAT HAPPENS ON THE BOAT STAYS ON THE BOAT
12/18/2007 9:39:05 AM by Wave Editorial Staff
Wave’s editors and foreign correspondents often find themselves in some pretty sticky situations while out at sea in search of that next great story idea. Here are a few we thought might be worth a mention.
What a City Doesn’t Know
The Bounty from the famous 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando resides proudly at the St. Petersburg Pier. The ship is a popular tourist attraction, so when a movie production company contacted the appropriate parties to arrange to shoot scenes from their film Pirates on board the pier, management was only too happy to comply. Imagine their surprise when the movie became the adult entertainment hit of the year. “There was filming, there were pirates, there were actors, but there was not anything that was inappropriate that was done on the Pier,” says Susan Robertson, the Pier’s spokeswoman. “All the scenes filmed on the Bounty were clean. The X-rated parts were filmed in a California studio. They said it was going to be a PG-13 film. We took them at their word, and they didn’t deliver on that.” The Pier group first became suspicious when tourists recognized some of the actors as adult film stars during taping. Wonder if the fact that Pirates won the adult industry’s version of the Oscar for Best Picture will calm down the livid locals?
Honey, I Sold The Yacht
An unnamed woman on the West Coast of Florida made an urban myth come to life when she sold her husband’s 40-foot Sea Ray for $2,500. It seems that the husband had gone on a business trip with his secretary/mistress. How cliché. The wife found out about it and immediately listed the boat for sale with a local broker. It sold within three hours. When the husband returned it was to a done deal. Also, his Lexus had gone for $2,000 and his custom golf clubs for $500. The couple has since filed for divorce — no surprise there. The husband is attempting to get the boat, car and golf club sales declared null-and-void, but sources say that he won’t have much luck as the wife’s name was on the boat and car title and the golf clubs are a grey area. The names are under wraps while the judge tries to keep the case, which is reported to involve a lot of screaming in his courtroom, quiet.
No Thanks
Just prior to the headline news that Britney Spears lost custody of her two children, paparazzi captured photos of the songstress topless aboard a friend’s yacht. That in and of itself is nothing very interesting. What ended up making the news was the fact that there were no buyers for these raunchy shots, much to the professional photographers’ disappointment. We guess Forbes magazine had it right all along when they reported a while back that “Britney’s face no longer sells tabloids.” An unnamed representative for the pop star says that there was no such incident and therefore no photos taken, which is why no photos appeared in print. Most insiders say otherwise, claiming Spears is just trying to save face. Perhaps now Britney will get the privacy she’s always demanded.
Modern-day Love Boat
The tradition of sneaking into a lifeboat for a quickie goes back as long as lifeboats have been placed on ocean liners. The act is the high-seas version of the mile-high club. Recently, a couple aboard a popular cruise line out on their first cruise were determined to “bag a lifeboat.” Though initially surprised at how high-tech lifesaving craft aboard have gotten since the Titanic, they were determined to find a secluded and unlocked vessel. After days of scouting they were ready. After just about everyone aboard had gone to sleep, they snuck into a covered vessel designed for a large amount of passengers. They did their deed…several times, they claim. Once they were ready to head off to the much more comfortable bed in their stateroom, they discovered that the door had gotten stuck behind them. Imagine their mortification when after hours of pounding on the boat’s windows, they were finally rescued by a crewmember who heard their cries and immediately wanted to know what happened. Luckily, the blanket they’d brought with them covered the wife’s see-through negligee as they hastened red-faced back to their room.
Risky Business
Going topless on a yacht seems almost passé today. So the wild child of the recently-cancelled television series The O.C., Mischa Barton, found a new way to, perhaps unintentionally, get gossip rags interested. The actress, these days known more for her colorful Keds sneaker ads in girls’ teen magazines and partying hard on the celebrity social scene than for her acting work, was snapped smoking a joint on fashion designer Roberto Cavalli’s yacht off the coast of France. The actress is reported to be a big fan of doobies. Guess even the unstinting luxury aboard a superyacht can’t make this active party-goer relax completely on her own. The French authorities had no comment other than to say that unless they catch the person in the act, they can’t prosecute. Lucky girl.
Fake Abs?
When photographers noticed a little more than George Clooney intended when he was photographed wearing a belly-baring bathing suit on his yacht off the coast of Italy, the headlines quickly began to materialize across the globe regarding a large scar just above his belly button. This led to the international press questioning whether he’d had liposuction or other cosmetic work done on his popular physique. The star has often joked about cosmetic eye surgery, so why not elsewhere, was the consensus. Stan Rosenfield, Clooney’s publicist, responded by saying that the heartthrob has not had liposuction, adding that the mark could be the result of recent weight fluctuation. “It’s probably just from putting on the weight he lost from filming,” Rosenfield concluded. Medical consultants, defending the actor, say that the scar could have just as easily been from back and neck operations that Clooney underwent after an accident on the set while filming Syriana. The man himself has no comment.